The case of the highest quality, with folding cast berried handle and push/repeat, above rounded rectangular bevelled panel and with four further arched bevelled panels, each within a guilloche border, the front with a mask, the canted angles each with a figure cast emblematic of ASTRONOMIE, MECANIQUE, HOROLOGERIE and MATHEMATIQUE, the foliate engraved dial mask, enclosing the signed circular dial, 'Breguet' moon blued steel hands, and three further subsidiaries for the day of the week and month and for the date and alarm set, the twin train movement signed on the left edge of the backplate, with high quality silvered in-line platform lever escapement, the twin train movement striking and repeating the quarters and hours on two small bells, with alarm train and with strike/silent lever in the base
19cm high (handle up)
PROVENANCE:
Cyril Fish, thence by descent.
A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks, edited by Charles Terwilliger, Bronxville, 1987, item 10, p.33, shows another of the same design by Leroy, made for the Great Exhibition in 1851 with glass dial and minute repeat.
CONDITION REPORT
The case is in very good original condition. The movement is ticking. However the strike/repeat work is stuck? There is no key.
